You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
RAY BRADBURYHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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